Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Senior cop who decided to stay away from the scene of Arena attack denies leaving a 'command vacuum'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA senior police officer, among those responsible for the initial response to the Manchester Arena bombing, defied official guidance to stay away from the scene of the attack, the inquiry into the atrocity has heard.
Arif Nawaz, then an acting superintendent who was GMP's night duty 'silver' commander when the bomb went off, said his first instinct was to head to the scene of devastation but he then decided against it.
Instead he remained in GMP's headquarters to run the 'unarmed' police response from there amid fears of a continuing terror attack.
At the independent inquiry into the atrocity, the officer admitted he had not read official GMP guidance for 'night silver' commanders stipulating they should attend all major incidents when on
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